The SEPTEMBER SELECTED GROUP 08 (Valentine PRINCEP R.A. 1838-1904)
SEPTEMBER SELECTED GROUP will be drawings byVALENTINE PRINSEP R.A. (1838-1904) Following on from our exhibition of Poynter drawings we have this group of (mainly) early drawings by Prinsep from the period when he was working with Morris and Rossetti on the Oxford Union Murals (1857) and travelling with Burne-Jones in Italy (1859-61). Encouraged to draw by Watts (who lived at the Prinsep family home Little Holland House), he attended Gleyre’s Paris atelier with Poynter, Du Maurier (he is the model for ‘Taffy’ in ‘Trilby’) and Whistler. These drawings are all inscribed verso as having come from ‘Mrs House’ Sale, Regents Park’:
 1. Head of a girl. Circa 1860. Pen and ink. 5x6 inches. £475 | 
|  3. A bearded, very 1860s Gent in a knickerbocker suit. Pencil. 14x11 inches. £375 |
 4. Study of a sleeping male Nude. Pencil. 6x10 inches. £400 |  5. Standing model from behind, her head turned in profile. Pencil. 13x8 inches. Framed. £400 |  6. Page of studies, including a Beauty posed with an iris. Pencil. 10x7 inches. Framed. £425 |
 7. Studies for a figure composition (recto); women outside a tenement (verso). Pencil. 11x7 inches. £400 |  8. Two studies of a girl asleep on the studio sofa. Pencil. 7x8 inches. £400 |  9. Head of a girl in profile. Very fine pencil. 8x6 inches. £425 |
 10. Madonna and Child; three studies for a roundel. Pencil drawing related to Rossettis’s ‘Virgin and Child’(1852) Surtees No. 689 ill. no 472. 8x7 inches. Framed. £675 |  11. Head of an alert young man in Darwinesque spectacles. Black chalk on blue paper. 7x6 inches. Framed. £475 |  12. ‘Marquet, le petit-fils de mascarillo’ (sic); young woman in a crinoline. Pencil.10x6 inches. Framed. £475 |
 13. Standing woman, her arms raised in that particularly pre-raphaelite stretch suggestive of lonely tower dwelling. Pencil. 9x5 inches. Framed. £450 |  14. An allegorical figure bringing light to the world. Pen and ink. 8x5 inches. £425 |  15. A page of lively figure studies. Pencil. 7x10 inches. Framed. £425 |
 16. Young girl before a panel of Judges; the study for (?‘The Trial of Charlotte Corday’). Black chalk on grey/green paper. 9x13 inches. £400 |  17. Studies of a toga’d figure. Very close to the work of his great friend Leighton. Chalk on blue paper. 10x14 inches. £450 |  18. Two portrait studies of a young man. Black and white chalks on blue paper. 8x14 inches. Framed. £775 |
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